@Sidebar: Cathy & Arnie Fenner, the creators of the Spectrum series of art fantastic books.
@The Mumpsimus: Brian Francis Slattery (Spaceman Blues and Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America).
@The Guardian: Jeff Bridges answers some Tron questions.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch shows off the cover of Duplicate Effort, the next book in the Retrieval Artist series.
Fictionautics looks at Speculative Fiction and Genres: "On the cross-pollination of genres - it's already been done, and it's still being done (not just here, but internationally), and folks don't care as long as it's good."
Sci Fi Writers Have No Sense Of Scale: "Most people can't get their minds around just how big the universe is. So it should come as no surprise that most Speculative Fiction writers can't either."